The Red House starts from Liaodong

Chapter 510 Twilight of the Empire

The largest refugee army was defeated. Although the leader of the thief was not caught, it was a great achievement, but Zhou Yuchang, the military governor of the five provinces, was not happy.

On the surface, Zhou Jun's combat effectiveness is still strong, as long as the money and food are supplemented, the refugee army will be defeated.

But the hardship lies in the lack of money and food.

An army of 10,000+ gathered in Sichuan to guard against death, seemingly suppressing the refugee army to the most dangerous moment.

But in reality Zhou Yuchang couldn't hold on anymore.

There are 130 infantry soldiers, and each soldier is only paid 2000 cents of silver a day, and a total of [-] taels of silver is needed a year;

There are 120 cavalry soldiers, and each of them only pays one qian per day for salary and fodder. A total of 6000 taels of silver is needed a year.

A total of 260 million and 8000 taels of silver are required for the two items.This salary is only enough for 11 soldiers of the guest army.

There are also salaries for 400 to [-] local officers and soldiers, and they need to raise [-] taels of silver a year.

This is military.

And the people.

With natural disasters and man-made disasters, even in Sichuan and Sichuan, there are millions of victims waiting for disaster relief, not to mention the other provinces.

Without disaster relief, the refugees cannot live.

Then new thieves will come back, and years of efforts to suppress bandits will be in vain.

Unless you kill all the refugees.

Killed nearly tens of millions of disaster victims in several provinces.

Zhou Yuchang thought he couldn't do it.

So he sent the memorials of asking for payment and rewards to the court one after another, hoping that the court would come up with an idea.

Beijing.

Emperor Gongshun has always wanted to change the year name.

The word "respect" made the emperor feel uncomfortable, and the reign title chosen by the Supreme Emperor has always been a thorn in his heart.

After pro-government, power is in hand.

It's a pity that things happened one after another, and the national strength was getting weaker and weaker. He delayed and delayed, and never had a chance to mention this matter.

Every time the rioters disappeared for a moment, before he could catch his breath, new rioters appeared again.

Guangdong Fei Zhouzhang defeated Hongyi, immediately returned all the troops, and returned to the guard, but there were still 20 troops in Sichuan, the Liaoxi Army, the three major battalions, and the Gyeonggi Guards Army.

The battalion of up to 50 soldiers in the army book weighed heavily on the heart, making it difficult for people to go smoothly.

"Last year, I issued an imperial edict to ask the families of the honorable ministers to donate. As a result, all of them cried to me for being poor, and they had no sense of urgency to govern the country. Even the provincial gentry did not donate. When the thieves came, they all belonged to the thieves. Why did this happen?" Wait stupid?"

Hearing the emperor's question, Feng He lowered his head and said nothing.

Seeing such a gesture, the emperor became even more angry.

Does Feng He have talent?

The emperor thought that he was talented, and he was able to maintain the court until now, and he was a man of ability.

But Feng He's attitude bored the emperor.

Some things, he does; some things, he pretends to be stupid.

When Feng He heard the emperor's movement, he knew that he couldn't evade this time, so he summoned him alone to let him make up his mind.

But what could he come up with.

The root is the field.

Clans, relatives, gentry landlords, and eunuchs occupy too much land, and no one is willing to give it up. Everyone in the world does this, so why should they suffer.

They are powerful and powerful, and the imperial court can't collect money from them. Instead, every time they increase their distribution, it turns out to be an opportunity for them to annex the fields.

The more the imperial court increased, the more they annexed.

Over the past [-] years since the addition of the Pai started during the period of the Supreme Emperor, [-]% of the land in the world has belonged to them.

Gapai became poison.

The more the number of additional dispatches, the more incurable.

Feng He is a smart person, he can see the roots, and knows that he does not have this ability, but who pushed him to the front stage.

In his opinion, the position of the chief assistant of the cabinet is a pit of fire.

"To completely wipe out bandits, you need a large army, and you need money and food to use large soldiers, either from the public or from the people."

"The national treasury is empty, and I suggest that the emperor distribute internal money." Feng He has said everything that should be said, and the emperor will choose what to do next.

Emperor Gong Shun stopped talking.

"Where is the money in the internal money?"

Feng He sighed secretly, and finally expressed his idea that he was unwilling to put forward.

"Anyone who pays more than five taels of grain tax per mu can be levied additional money and grain."

Officials are very smart.

For Feng He to become the chief assistant of the cabinet, he must have an extraordinary vision.

Today, those who can pay more than five taels of grain must be big local families. Although they will eventually be passed on to tenants, this method is the best policy compared to paying grain in one piece.

It is precisely because the ordinary people cannot afford to live that they become refugees. There are endless refugees and robbers.

So he proposed to collect grain from big households.

The emperor got what he wanted, so he let Feng He go with satisfaction, and ordered him to go back and write a memorial.

Feng He left the Wenhua Palace tremblingly, feeling desolate in his heart.

as predicted.

As the news spread, everyone was accusing Feng He of disorderly governance.

Even Jia Zheng, who has always been gentle, yelled at Feng He for bullying in front of the diners, which shows the atmosphere in the capital.

Without the cooperation of big local households outside the county, and with opposition from all parties, this proposal not only failed to be implemented smoothly, but was even implicated in the current suppression of bandits.

In the end, amidst the scolding, Feng He took the initiative to take the blame, took all the responsibilities, and resigned and returned home.

With Feng He's departure from the cabinet, his so-called policy of paying wages due to grain was immediately abolished, and the implementation no longer differentiated the amount of tax and grain, and levied an increase according to the amount of land.

In the third month of leap, Emperor Gongshun formally issued an edict to increase the levy and suppress wages.

The edict said:
"The rogue bandits have spread for a long time, and the living and the people have been devastated. If you don't gather troops to suppress them, the bandits can't be eliminated quickly; if you don't spend more money and food, you can't make a big move. There is no way to set up a place. , Temporarily tiring our people for a year, in addition to this serious trouble. Thinking again and again, it is a last resort....Now I am instructing the place to press, make a big announcement, and prepare for the imperial court to eliminate the disabled for the people and show sympathy in many ways. Gather all the officials , Strictly enforce the precepts, spread the villages, and give detailed advice, so that everyone knows it, the rich and the poor are alike, and if you can follow it without disturbance, you will naturally like righteousness and lose, and the success of the suppression is complete, and it will be recorded in one piece."

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golden state.

"South of the Yellow River, north of the Great River, seven or eight thousand miles from east to west, only the prefectures and counties still exist, and the rest of the villages are dilapidated and embarrassing.

At the end of the day, I will come from Jingzhou in Huguang, the second prefecture of Xiangyang, Nanyang in Henan, and the second prefecture in Kaifeng. I saw that there is no grass for hundreds of miles, and the people eat each other, so I can't bear to speak. "

Tang Qing'an looked at the information sent from the mainland, and passed it to Jia Jian.

Xie Youcheng, Tao Jie, Lin Ruhai, Gu Daochu and the others all shook their heads and sighed after reading one by one.

"Huguang is well-known in the world, and even Huguang has suffered a disaster, which shows the current situation in the interior."

Lin Ruhai said regretfully.

"Although it is a natural disaster, the imperial court's disaster relief is not effective, and it has been confused again and again, so that today's erosion, freezing three feet is not a day's cold."

Tao Jie said, while looking at the general.

"General, excuse me for your bold and false words. Today's Jinjiang Town, with the prestige of the general, raises its arms and shouts, and the whole world will respond,"

When Tao Jie was in North Korea, he was a person with a fierce personality. Now he is in a high position and ignores the court.

"Domestic officials are too ugly to eat."

"Lao Shizi inspected the "overflow land" and said that the land reclaimed by the people exceeded the original amount of acres. After the discovery, taxation by mu was calculated, and it was not without small compensation for the increase in wages."

Tao Jie scolded with a smile.

"In today's customs, there is no place where a large area of ​​land is abandoned. What local officials mention to check the "overflowing land" is simply a dream."

"Not only did it open the door for big households to annex land and acres, but it also increased the search for poor people."

"Taking advantage of the civil unrest in the country to calm down, our Jinjiang army marched westward, attacking Gyeonggi front and back, taking advantage of the trend, and it was within easy reach."

Both Xie Youcheng and Lin Ruhai shook their heads, disapproving of Tao Jie's idea.

Xie Youcheng did it out of military considerations.

Jin Jiangjun's site is too big.

The grassland cannot be separated from the army, North Korea cannot be separated from the army, and Nuergan cannot be separated from the army, and the navy is getting bigger and bigger.

Last year, hundreds of thousands of refugees were recruited from the country, resulting in insufficient storage in Jinjiang Town.And the fourth town of [-] stationed in the Ryukyu Kingdom.

It has just been two years since the three-year rest and recuperation policy proposed by the general, and there is no plan to use troops domestically.

If you want to mobilize troops in the country, you need to change your policy and start saving. At least 20 troops need to prepare supplies for long-distance combat.

At least hundreds of thousands of civilians were mobilized back and forth.

As well as the threat of Lin Danhan in the north, whether he will take advantage of the chaos in the Great Zhou Dynasty and go south. As long as Lin Danhan has a political mind, he will not miss this opportunity.

Even if Lin Danhan is not considered, unless Jin Jiangzhen is desperate and uses war to support war in the country, based on his understanding of the general, he feels that the general will not agree.

Lin Ruhai thought differently.

Now it is the imperial court who has a headache because of the disaster victims, and when the Jinjiang army enters the customs, it is the Jinjiang Town's headache for the disaster victims.

With the ability of Jinjiang Town, it can try its best to recruit hundreds of thousands of refugees every year, but there are tens of millions of refugees all at once, how can Jinjiang Town supply them.

Unable to provide disaster relief, the refugee army continued, but it was a steady stream of refugee armies that rebelled against Jinjiang Town.

As for the massacre of big households.

Lin Ruhai also disagreed.

Slaughtering a large family in one place, and seeing the hostility of Jinjiang Town towards the big family, the big family in other places will unite, and the south will support the imperial court with one heart.

The national power of the Great Zhou was not fully developed because the big households did not cooperate with the imperial court, but when the big households from all over the country were united, the national strength was not only [-]%.

Jinling's commerce and trade would be banned, and the general's reputation in the country would be ruined. Everyone regarded the general as a disaster.

At that time, the general will face the hostility of the whole world. Even if he conquers all places, the rebellion will not stop.

Lin Ruhai and Xie Youcheng finished their thoughts one after another.

Everyone looked at the general, waiting for his decision.

"keep status quo."

Tang Qing'an said softly.

If the imperial court does not provide disaster relief, it will always have to face the endless refugee army.

Even if you don't talk about benevolence and righteousness, it is beneficial to Jinjiang Town if you only start from the interests.If the imperial court has been standing with the big households to exploit the people, it will lose more and more people's hearts.

Liaohetao has a lot of fertile land. Although the development of Nuergan is slow, it has a vast territory and abundant resources. The population of Jinjiang Army will increase and its strength will become stronger and stronger.

From a military perspective.

After digesting the grassland, North Korea and Jinjiang Town in Nuergan can not only draw out 20 troops at any time, but also maintain stability in the rear, providing a steady stream of supplies for the army to fight abroad.

The reason why Jinjiang Town is still under the banner of Dazhou is because of the sea trade of Jeju Island, as well as the domestic population and supplies.

Now the south of Dazhou is still rich and productive, and it cooperates well with Jinjiang Town. Jinjiang Town's influence is growing.

The profit of several million taels of silver every year solves the military salary and government expenses of Jinjiang Town. Compared with entering the customs and looting, it is a loss of watermelon and sesame seeds.

In history, Houjin entered the customs many times, and the population and benefits obtained are far inferior to the current situation of Jinjiang Town.

What's more, Tang Qing'an is not Houjin.

Hou Jin was a foreigner, and killing Han people and looting property was what his own people wanted.

When he slaughtered the Han people by himself, the good ethos of Jinjiang town that had been built for many years immediately dissipated, and was replaced by the ethos of Wufu ruling the country, which was not conducive to his long-term rule.

Whether the country is right or wrong is related to the foundation of the future.

Don't demolish the house to death from freezing, and don't plunder to death from starvation", isn't it just slapping yourself in the face.

"I'm afraid the number of refugees in Shandong this year will increase several times compared to previous years."

Lin Ruhai breathed a sigh of relief and reminded his colleagues.

He has no objection to the general being the emperor, he is not a pedantic scholar, he was born in a noble family, and he is also envious of Conglong Zhigong.

Just maintaining the current situation is beneficial to Jin Jiangzhen.

The power of the imperial court is declining, while the strength of Jinjiang Town is rising, one ebbs and another. On the day of entering the customs, it will be easier and more popular for Jinjiang Town to win the world.

"Not only from Shandong, but also more and more immigrants from Fujian. According to the Navy's official document, even refugees from Guangdong and Guangxi are also entering Fujian."

Tang Qing'an said.

With the capacity of the navy and the capacity carried by overseas Han merchant ships going north, at least 20 million coastal refugees can be gathered this year.

The big head is still Shandong.

The flood victims from all parts of the north flooded into Shandong. I am afraid that with the government's decree and the spread of Jinzhou's reputation, it is possible that Shandong alone will exceed 50.

There are as many as 70 refugees a year, one-tenth of the population, and the pressure on Jinjiang Town is not small.

Food in Jinjiang Town.

[-]% come from Liaodong, [-]% from Liaohetao, [-]% from North Korea and Nuergan, and [-]% from overseas business.

"I am going to lift the sea ban, and all the people can go fishing in the sea."

Tang Qing'an said.

Although Jinjiang Town's business is opened, the fishery policy has not been opened. The government has always organized sea fishing, but considering the current pressure, it should support the people to go fishing on their own.

The shipping yards have already run at full capacity and are not producing redundant ships.

However, the common people can invite folk craftsmen to build small fishing boats and fish for food along the coast, which is better than nothing.

"This proposal is the best policy."

Everyone did not object.

The Department of Fishery has set up freezers and salt farms on various islands, mainly for fishing in the open sea, while the common people fish in the offshore, and there is no major conflict between the two.

After everyone has agreed on domestic affairs, the next step is overseas affairs.

Japan has civil strife.

Fifty veterans died in battle.

"I'm very upset about this."

Tang Qing'an's voice was low, and everyone felt dull.

It was an assassination in name, but in fact it was to make Tokugawa Tadacho trust Jin Jiangzhen and make up his mind to resist Tokugawa Iemitsu.

The deeper intention is to avoid a successful assassination.

Liu Xianglian believes that there is a secret alliance between the Japanese emperor, monks, and daimyo forces, and they are on the emperor's site in Kyoto.

The assassination is extremely likely to succeed, but it will be cheaper for Tokugawa Tadacho, which is not conducive to Jin Jiangzhen's ultimate goal.

Therefore, the role of veterans, if the assassination is successful, it is also the time for veterans to turn their backs.

If the assassination is unsuccessful, both the veteran and Tokugawa Tadacho's samurai will die.

When the assassination is successful, the veteran will die if the assassination is not successful.

Only when the assassination is really successful can the veterans survive.

But Jin Jiangzhen couldn't let the assassination succeed.

(End of this chapter)